Bio-inspired algorithm (BA) has attracted attention and intrigued many due to its wide range of applications for a long time. Numerous kinds of BAs, such as the differential evolution algorithm[1]}, grey wolf optimizer [2]}, artificial bee colony algorithm [3]}, genetic algorithm [4]}, ant colony algorithm (ACO)[5]}, and whale optimization algorithm [6]} have been developed. BAs have played important roles in solving optimization problems, such as large-scale multiobjective detection and optimization [7]}, [8]}, parameter estimation [9]}, global numerical optimization [10]}, feature selection [11]}, numerical function optimization [3]}, and boosting support vector machine [13]}, just to name a few. In the past decade, a new BA, named the physarum polycephalum inspired algorithm (PPA) [14]}, [15]}, also called the physarum solver, has attracted great attention.
